Amanda Shires: “To the Sunset”
AMANDA SHIRES To the Sunset Silver Knife Records Now this is more like it. As lovely as it admittedly was, Amanda Shires’ last album, My …
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June 18, 2019 Slip Inside this House: Roky’s Last Ride From Halloween in the Big Apple to "Easter Everywhere" in San Francisco, a fond look back at Roky Erickson's final tour by three starry-eyed young Texas rockers who landed the gig of their dreams.
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March 4, 2019 LSM Song Premiere: “Walked in Them Shoes” by Adam Carroll Hear the opening title track from the acclaimed Texas songwriter's new album, out April 12
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February 17, 2019 Q&A: Hayes Carll The freewheelin' troubadour talks about "What It Is" and what it takes to make a stand in times like these
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February 10, 2019 LSM’S 2018 REVIEW ROUND-UP … AND CATCH-UP (PART 2) Continuing our look back at some of our favorite Americana albums of the past year
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January 4, 2019 LSM’s 2018 review round-up … and catch-up (Part 1) As we look forward to a 2019 promising a bumper crop of new releases from many of our favorite artists, here's a look back at some of the most notable Americana, Texas, and Red Dirt albums of 2018
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Jaimee Harris: “Red Rescue”
JAIMEE HARRIS Red Rescue www.jaimeeharris.com Jaimee Harris’ name has showed up so many times in the music pages of the Austin Chronicle and Austin American-Statesman …
Jamie Lin Wilson: “Jumping Over Rocks”
JAMIE LIN WILSON Jumping Over Rocks www.jamielinwilson.com The most striking thing about Jamie Lin Wilson’s Jumping Over Rocks isn’t just the fact that her cover …
Eliza Gilkyson: “Secularia”
ELIZA GILKYSON Secularia Red House Records Just shy of 20 years into her remarkable second act (2000 being the year that she rebooted her career, …
Cody Canada & the Departed: “3”
CODY CANADA & THE DEPARTED 3 Underground Sound Confusing as it may seem for Cody Canada & the Departed to have titled their fifth release …
LSM’S 2018 REVIEW ROUND-UP … AND CATCH-UP (PART 2) Continuing our look back at some of our favorite Americana albums of the past year
Last month, we kicked off the new year with a round-up of all of the albums we reviewed in 2018 — along with new reviews …
LSM’s 2018 review round-up … and catch-up (Part 1) As we look forward to a 2019 promising a bumper crop of new releases from many of our favorite artists, here's a look back at some of the most notable Americana, Texas, and Red Dirt albums of 2018
With new albums by Hayes Carll, Ryan Bingham, Flatland Cavalry, Robert Ellis, and Rob Baird all due for release in the first quarter alone, 2019 …
The Devil’s Revival From haunted dive bar to "honky-tonk heaven": A new verse for "The Ballad of the Devil's Backbone Tavern."
By Richard Skanse “Don’t you love this place?” Those were the first words Robyn Ludwick said to me the first time I ever interviewed her. …
Willie and more than 50,000 friends rally for Beto in Austin Nelson premieres new "Vote 'Em Out" song in front of massive crowd at "Turn Out for Texas" event for senate candidate Beto O'Rourke
By Richard Skanse When it was announced a few weeks back that Willie Nelson would be performing at a rally in Austin for Democratic Texas …
Q&A: Alejandro Escovedo The True Believer talks about how a band of Italians — and the fictional story of two immigrants in search of America in the age of Trump — helped him find his way to making the most personal and boldly political album of his life, "The Crossing."
By Richard Skanse Nearly two decades on from writing one of the most haunting songs of his career — 2001’s “Wave,” about the day his father, …
